The students have signs, they have a petition and they even have a hashtag: #SaveOurStoBoat.

"We're here to revitalize the city because we know that this city is struggling under the corporations -- the casinos -- that have just been going bankrupt," said Irvin Moreno-Rodriguez, a 21-year-old graduate student at Stockton University and organizer of the protest. "We're here to tell them that...